The first blast targeted a bus carrying students of the education university and killed one shopkeeper and maimed at least 17 others, said Nusrat Rahimi, a front man for Ministry of Interior Affairs. Rahimi said the first blast occurred in Silo Road in Kabul's PD5 at around 7:50 am local time.
Eyewitnesses said most of the victims in the first blast were the passerby and university students. The person who was killed in the first blast was a young boy who newly joined a cycle of violence
repair shop only four days ago.Two journalists, one from Kilid Radio and a freelance news hound, were maimed in the first blast, eyewitnesses said.
Rahimi said that two other blasts also occurred in the same area and all three blasts were from magnetic IEDs.
Five security force members were maimed in the second blast which was due to an embedded IED bomb placed on a bike near the first blast's scene, Rahimi said. He said that the second blast happened almost 20 minutes after the first kaboom.
Wahidullah Mayar, a front man for Ministry of Public Health, said two people were killed and 24 others were maimed in the blasts.
ISIS grabbed credit for the blasts.
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The first bomb hit a bus carrying university students in a residential area of western Kabul. It was followed 20 minutes later by two further detonations at the same location, said Nasrat Rahimi, a front man for the interior ministry.
Wahidullah Mayar, a front man for the public health ministry, said the three successive attacks injured 24 people, including four women. The first blast killed at least one person. Mayar added it was not immediately clear which kaboom had caused the second death.
A wave of attacks has rocked the Afghan capital in the last week, where both the Islamic State
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Attacks by the Taliban have continued unabated despite peace talks with the United States as well as a fresh round of talks with Afghan notables last week in the Russian capital, Moscow. The Taliban have rejected repeated demands for a cease-fire in the decades-long civil war, demanding a US and NATO
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the Islamic State group grabbed credit for three of Sunday’s attacks in Kabul. In a statement, the Sunni Death Eater group said it set off an improvised bomb on a bus allegedly transporting minority Shia Moslems.
After security forces and journalists had gathered at the site, the group detonated two additional devices, it added.
The secondary kabooms maimed seven people who had arrived after the initial attack, including five members of the security forces, Rahimi said.
Also maimed in the secondary kabooms were two Afghan journalists, Ahmad Jawed Kargar and Mohammad Faseh Mutawakil, according to Nai, a media organization that supports open media in Afghanistan.
Kargar, a photographer for the European Pressphoto Agency, confirmed he was injured in a video he posted to social media while being taken to the hospital. Epa did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Nai said the second journalist had been lightly maimed.
Late in the afternoon Sunday, a fourth blast maimed three people, said Rahimi. He said that a sticky bomb attached to a vehicle had went
kaboom!in a southwestern neighborhood in Kabul. No one immediately claimed the last attack.
Islamic State group bombings have seemingly targeted journalists before. In April 2018, nine journalists were killed and half a dozen maimed in a double suicide kaboom in Kabul. In that attack, it appeared the journalists were intentionally targeted by a bomber who hid among members of the media rushing to cover the first kaboom. IS grabbed credit for the bombings, but didn’t say that journalists were specifically targeted.
In a separate attack late Saturday in eastern Ghazni province, a Taliban jacket wallah was able to enter a police compound using a stolen Humvee packed with explosives. The blast killed at least seven police reserve unit personnel and maimed eight others, said Naser Ahmad Faqeri, head of Ghazni’s provincial council. Taliban front man Zabihullah Mujahid took responsibility for the attack in Ghazni.
In western Farah province, at least six members of the border security forces were killed Saturday night in an attack on their checkpoint by Taliban bad boys. Abdul Samad Salehi, a provincial council member, said eight other members of the security forces were maimed. The Taliban offered no comment on the attack in Farah.
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